June 17th General Meeting

Getting Ready for Your Vacation

(& Apple Bombshells)

Vacation means cameras! and iPhones, iPods, iPads, MacBooks… You won’t want to miss the June meeting: we’ll cover Apple’s newest bombshells, as well as tips for your summer travel and security, photography software tools and tips for taking good photos, and even an iMovie primer. Combined with our wonderful Apps & Traps, great drawing prizes, and Q&A, this will be a meeting not to be missed!!

Computer travel necessities: cables, adaptors, etc.
Travel security precautions
Saving photos from camera flashcards to hard drives
Preview
iPhoto
Photoshop, etc.
iMovie

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

Apple News & Updates – Wow!! iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, a new MacBook Air, an even newer Mac Pro, iTunes Radio (which we will be discussing at the July meeting); a bit overwhelming, eh?

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing includes an Apple World Travel Adapter Kit and  a perfect-for-summer-vacation slew of e-books and graphic novels, a baker’s dozen, to be exact! This eclectic collection includes:

1. Old Man’s War
        John Scalzi

2. Pirate Cinema
        Cory Doctorow

3. Signal to Noise
        Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean

4. Attack of the Bacon Robots
        Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik

5. Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings
        Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik

6. Invasion: The Secret World Chronicle
        Mercedes Lackey

7. Magic for Beginners
        Kelly Link

8. Pump Six and Other Stories
        Paolo Bacigalupi

9. Save Yourself, Mammal!
        Zach Weiner

10. Stranger Things Happen
         Kelly Link

11. The Most Dangerous Game
         Zach Weiner

12. Zoo City
         Lauren Beukes

13. xkcd: volume 0
         Randall Munroe

Don’t forget: members receive one free ticket for our drawing. Bring a guest and get another free ticket! Support our group and increase your chances of winning some goodies – drawing tickets are $1.00 each or six for $5.00. The odds are great that you can be a winner!

The meeting will be held at the Pasadena Public Library Main Branch Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Following the general meeting, we have our informal Meeting after the Meeting at Coco’s Restaurant, 77 N. Lake Ave. (between Colorado Blvd. and Holly St.).